Quote from the Miami-sourced article:
Offensive coordinator Shannon Dawson said he called for the handoff, but didn’t elaborate as to what was said on the headsets before the play was called. Dawson said he didn’t sleep Saturday night and called it “as hard of a loss as I’ve had in my career.”
“What we did at the end was the wrong decision,” Dawson said. “I called it, it is what it is. I wish we would have done something different but we didn’t. So gotta live with it. It was the wrong thing to do.”
From the above report, it looks like my hunch as to who actually called the play — as I stated in a previous post — is correct. And Cristobal, listening to Dawson on his headphone, didn’t overrule him.
It was a brain fart, from both UM coaches.
Decisions, decisions.
And how about the quick-thinking decisions on what plays to call from Buster Faulkner, Chris Weinke and Brent Key following the fumble recovery? They turned out to be the correct ones … with some improvisation from King and Leary on the last touchdown play, of course.